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REMINDER...WE'VE MOVED TO THIS BLOG HERE. Please change your bookmarks accordingly.

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DUE TO MY INTENSE frustration with blogger, I have moved this blog to Typepad. For fresh rants, animal sex (great now I'll get 1000 google hits for that), bad cops, and more go to:www.threesheets.typepad.comAnd don't forget to change your bookmarks.

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HOW NOT TO HELP YOUR CAUSE: Tip: When waiting outside the courtroom while your estranged wife is seeking an Order of Protection, do NOT punch and beat her. Apparently, Thomas Kapfer didn't get the memo and was arrested yesterday at the Lake County, Illinois, courthouse when he began beating his wife (breaking her nose) at the courthouse where she had asked for an OOP.Tip #2: In the days after

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I'LL PASS: I just can't put my finger on it (pun intended) but something doesn't sit well with this news story from South Carolina. Piggly Wiggly is testing out the "Pay by Touch" system of paying for groceries. The service lets shoppers use scanned fingerprints tied to a bank account to pay for groceries.I don't know if I'm ready to cross that line, yet. I know data collection companies

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EXCUSE OF THE DAY: I don't know too many celebrities that are as sad-sacked as Billy Joel. It all started out so promising. Semi-OK pop music celebrity...married to a hot Christie Brinkley....And then depression (reference to Stripes)...Rehab followed car crash followed rehab followed car crash followed crappy Broadway rip-off musical (yeah, it was original when it was Abba and Mama Mia..it

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NKE UPDATE: It's official. NKE broke his arm. They are putting it in a splint like thing for a week until the swelling goes down and then he'll have a hard cast. He's being exceptionally brave and stoic.Oh yeah, the chicks are gonna dig him.

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UPDATE: Today I had the sentencing hearing for my client convicted of attempted murder following February's bench trial. His sentence range was 6-30 years in prison, no chance for probation. He'll do 85% of the time.The State asked for 30 years arguing that he was basically lucky the victim didn't die. That I agree with. No doubt the shooter was lucky when he shoots point blank at a guy

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IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING: Finally, a week without any colds, fevers or respiratory viruses. So of course I get a phone call from my son's teacher: "NKE fell off the monkey bars..at first he was just crying, but he's still crying and his arm is getting a bit swollen...can you come get him."Fortunately, the wife happened to be in court about half a mile from the school..which itself is about two

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GOOD MOVE: (Sun-Times) The teen boy who says Michael Jackson molested him left the witness stand Tuesday after telling jurors that he denied the abuse to a school administrator because he was tired of other kids making fun of him.Sure, I get it...the kids are making fun of you so you deny the charge....then you change your mind and so it can blow up real big on every TV newscast, tabloid show,

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: (Sun-Times) Lefkow killer used GPS to find her home: Bart Ross used a global positioning device to seek directions to the homes of federal Judge Joan Lefkow as well as a doctor and a Cook County judge, sources said Tuesday.Ross, 57, shot to death Lefkow's husband, Michael Lefkow, 64, and her mother, Donna Humphrey, 89, in their North Side basement Feb. 28. Police recovered

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YOU GOTTA LOVE NEIGHBORS: My new toy came today and I finally got a chance to open it. The boys are upstairs watching Spiderman 2 (again..sad to say they watch it everyday) so I came to the dining room to set up my new laptop. First order of business, download Firefox. But, the wife is on the upstairs computer so I can't get the authentication numbers for our wi-fi network. No problem. The

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MAYBE IT'S IN THE PHRASING: I was standing in line today at the Arbitration Center waiting to sign in as an arbitrator when I overheard the woman in front of me have this conversation with a woman signing people in...ARB: You did something different to your hair. I like it.WMN: No, normally I straighten it, but today I didn't.ARB: I think it looks SO much better this way.WMN: (nods).What

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NOT THAT HE reads this blog, but since I'm not going to sit down a write him a card, happy birthday Tom P.

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MISSING THE POINT: I saw this headline on Drudge and followed the link: Man held after daylight axe murder14 March 2005A man is being questioned over a brutal daylight axe murder which stunned residents in an upmarket area of north London. Why does it seem to matter to these people that it was a daylight axe murder? Isn't a nighttime axe murder pretty damn gruesome too? It's like...oh, he wore

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PLUG OF THE NIGHT: Heard on not one, but two, podcasts...Jonathan Coulton. I've heard two of his songs and liked both. One is a paean to Ikea, called, ironically enough, Ikea. The other is about the Mandelbrot Set called...you got it...Mandelbrot Set. I mean, seriously, how can you not love a song who's lyrics contain "you're a bad ass fucking fractal."Aside: Everytime I swear on this blog I

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UNCLE: Tales from the bathroom: This conversation occurred after NKE admitted to peeing in the tub and was caught spitting water out like a fountain. "NKE, don't you realize that since you peed in the tub that your are putting pee in your mouth." "But, I'm spitting it out." With one kid I would've emptied the tub and refilled it for his bath. With two kids I would've immediately soaped the

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MY DAD AND I WENT TO THE AUTO SHOW YESTERDAY. About every four years I like to go to the Minneapolis Convention Center and see all the new models.All but a small handful of production vehicles were unlocked. Anyone could sit in them and see the view from the inside. Years ago that all the Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and some Audi models were locked. I guess the manufacturers felt these models were too

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INSTINCT, A PLAY IN TWO ACTS: Cast:Father: RossSon #1: NKE (turns 5 next week)Son #2: JME (2 years old) Daughter#1: RLEACT I: kitchen Thursday nightRoss: JME, please go tell your brother dinner is ready.(JME exits kitchen by walking two feet into the living room. NKE off-stage, in his dressing room upstairs)JME: (screaming) NKE!!, NKE!!!Ross: JME, don't yell through the house. Go

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ANN ALTHOUSE had a post today about a proposal to build a massive new building close to the State capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin. The Capitol building is the a landmark in Madison. It can be seen for miles around. This new building would violate the law (hmm, must need a zoning variation) that buildings within one mile of the Capitol be less than 187.2 feet tall. This new building

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MARCH MADNESS: Today is selection day for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. For the past four years I have won my office pool. That isn't all that great an accomplishment when you consider my office consists of three people and two of them don't enter the pool. So I have decided to widen the pool by setting up a private group tournament on Yahoo and opening it up to all ThreeSheets readers.

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GEE, YA THINK? (Hindustantimes) A man ended up in a southern Philippines hospital on Monday after severing and then eating his own penis, hospital officials said.Fortunately the man was immediately taken to mental hospital where he will be treated by such psychological wizards as this man...Asked about the patient's mental state, one staff member said: "If you cut your sex organ and then eat it,

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EMBARRASSING CRIMINAL OF THE DAY: (Trentonian.com) An alleged crack addict with nervous bowels was charged yesterday in a string of burglaries, in several cases leaving feces in the homes he robbed, according to police.William "Billy" Woodard, 39, of Bradford Court in Bordentown Township, was arraigned before Hamilton Municipal Court Judge Roger Haley on four counts of burglary, two counts of

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I KNOW IT'S A BIT EARLY, but finally there may be a major party candidate I'd like to vote for. If Condi Rice keeps giving interviews like the one discussed in this Althouse post I'll be a happy man.

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MINNESOTAN WANTS DRINKING AGE RAISED. A state legislator believes the North Star State should change the legal drinking age to 21 year, eight hours. This would make Minnesota the state with the highest drinking age.We're number 1!The Star Tribune reports: It's called Power Hour, a popular -- if potentially lethal -- rite of passage for young adults: Drink as much as humanly possible in the hours

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BIG 10 TOURNAMENT: The Mrs. and I went to the United Center tonight to watch session #3 of the Big 10 Men's Basketball Tournament. Our daughter's godmother got some free tickets and invited us. Good seats, too.First game was Iowa v. Michigan State. Exciting game; Iowa upset MSU.Second game was Ohio State (wife's alma mater) v Wisconsin (my alma mater). Wisconsin won.Here are some quick

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WATCHED LOCAL TV NEWS TONIGHT. The courthouse shooting in Atlanta got a lot of coverage. Atlanta is under lockdown. Courthouse buildings and nearby buildings are locked down. The Atlanta Journal Constitution office was under lockdown for a while.Locally, whenever a someone stubs a toe in a school two things happen: grief counselors are called and the school is locked down. There's no deeper

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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED but it may be podcasted: I've spent this week exploring podcasts and I have to say I'm very impressed. For those of you who haven't heard of them, here is a definition from iPodder: "Think how a desktop aggregator works. You subscribe to a set of feeds, and then can easily view the new audio files from all of the feeds together, or each feed separately.

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CLOSE THAT BARN DOOR: Congress is holding hearings into steroid use in baseball and has subpoenaed a number of current and former players to testify. Some like Curt Schilling and Frank Thomas are not steroid users and both have expressed a willingness to testify. MLB lawyers have tried various manuevers to avoid Congressional hearings but to crib an old saying, the last place you want to be is

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GOOD FEELING: Nothing feels quite like asking the perspective client (or their family) how they heard about our firm and finding out a judge referred you. In older days that might've been a sign they wanted a little something for it, but nowadays (at least as it relates to my firm) it's a sign they think we are good attorneys.Not saying that just happened, but...

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NOW I JUST MIGHT CALL: I checked my laptop order on Dell's website this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had finished "pre-production" and was nearing the end of the "production" line. According to Dell there are four stages of production: Kitting, Building, Testing and Boxing. My laptop is currently in "boxing."So why is it still in "boxing." How long could it possibly

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CLASSIC EXAMPLE #2: (Chicago Tribune) Hundreds of Metra commuters from the northwest suburbs were stuck aboard five stopped trains for up to an hour this morning when one of the trains struck a vehicle at a grade crossing on Chicago's Northwest Side, authorities said.How could this happen? Trains are on rails; they follow a path. How of earth could a train, jump off the rails and strike a car.

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CLASSIC EXAMPLE: (Sun-Times) A man cooking in his kitchen was shot after one of his cats knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor, discharging the weapon, Michigan State Police said.Joseph Stanton, 29, of Bates Township in Iron County was shot in his lower torso around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the state police post in Iron River reported. He was transported to Iron County Community Hospital.a) Why did he

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QUICK PLUG: The wife and I stumbled across Cheap Seats last weekend while hiding in the basement. My parents were babysitting while we went to dinner. We came back just as they were putting the boys to bed so we hid out in the basement hoping they'd be asleep by the time we were found out. No such luck. But, we did get some good laughs watching Cheap Seats.Cheap Seats is basically Mystery

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IN THE PEOPLE'S PARADISE OF CUBA, Fidel Castro is bestowing another pleasure on his people.(Sun Sentinel) HAVANA · Pressure cookers and rice steamers, essential tools of the Cuban kitchen, are the new weapons in Fidel Castro's latest battle to reassert control over the nation's economy.During a 5-1/2-hour speech broadcast on state TV, Castro said 100,000 pressure cookers would be made available

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A JOURNALIST REPEATS A FAULTY QUOTE and his newspaper issues a correction the next day. Not too shabby.(Sydney Morning Herald) In his column yesterday, Alan Ramsey quoted from a speech made by American journalist Bill Moyers, which alleged that James Watt, a former American secretary of the interior, told the US Congress: "After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back." Moyers has conceded

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BUT IN THE END....When I came home for exercising today there was a phone message on the answering machine from my sister-in-law (Slaw). Slaw was calling to tell my wife that slaw had chopped off her hair and is now sporting a new short cut. Slaw wondered if my wife had gotten around to her plan of dying her hair red yet. I listened to the message and just shook my head.Between them they have

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CRIMPROF BLOG has this post today: British scientists are studying methods of dating sperm found in the course of criminal investigations to corroborate or refute victim claims, as well as to defeat the tactic some rapists employ of smearing sperm beloning to someone else in the course of a rape. [Jack Chin]My question, wouldn't it be better to just try to determine how old the sperm is rather

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GEEZ, THEY MAKE EVERTHING A CRIME in Florida: (Some Florida Station) The adoptive parents of a 17-year-old boy who weighed 49 pounds when found in a home where he was forced to wear a diaper and sleep in a locked, cage-like bed have been charged with child neglect, authorities said.I mean it's not like it "was" a cage. It was just "cage-like." It's like the Kosher-style deli, run by a Catholic

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PISSED AT DELL: Today at about 12:45 p.m. I ordered my new laptop over the internet from Dell. It still isn't here yet. I want my new toy and I want it now. How dare they make me wait 2 business days for free shipping. I kid. Obviously if I had to have it today I would've flown to Texas and picked it up myself.Seriously, major drawback to ordering on line. The wait. But, I've had Dell

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FROM THE SUCKS TO BE PARTNER #3 DEPARTMENT: Today was Tech Day here at JKE LLC. Partner #1 purchased a brand new high speed low drag laptop to replace the 5 year old 6GB hard drive one he's been using. Partner #2 bought a Blackberry 7100t with the T-Mobile phone and internet service. Partner #3 got a car charger for their old phone.Now, guess which one is Diana.

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IS IT ME or is there an uptick in the number of couples making out at stoplights. Three different time this week I've been stuck behind a couple mashing for the 45 seconds the light is red. I guess I'm just getting old but can't you wait until you get home or something. I'll spot the high schoolers mashing in the park by our house after school (so long as it's the park and not the playground

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QUESTION: I have a question for any readers who are pigs police officers. Today I passed a State Trooper who had six antennas on the roof of his marked squad car and one on the trunk. I got the radio...I'll spot you some sort of SCMODS (State, County, Municipal Offender Data System...referencing The Blues Brothers) or whatever the wi-fi type computer system is really called...but what are the

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GAS PRICES:(Cnn) U.S. gasoline prices will hit a new record high this spring, reaching a national monthly average of $2.15 a gallon, the government said on Tuesday. I can't be too snarky because gas is already $2.17 at my local pump. Chicago has, I think, the second highest gas tax in the nation and so we are always above the average.But I find it a bit odd that media outlets are breathlessly

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ONE OF THE POINTS of having a day planner is you are supposed to look at it daily. Had I checked it daily I would've noticed my to-do list for last Monday (7th) included wishing Bob and his wife, Sheila, a happy anniversary. So, happy anniversary (belated)

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COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU: The City of Chicago has now formed a task force to study the best way to offer Wi-Fi. And just like Texas, a state rep is sponsoring a law to ban municipalities from operating broadband of wi-fi businesses. In a semi-twist thought, the state rep has no problem with a municipality contracting with a third party to offer wi-fi. If a city is going to offer wi-fi, I'm

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CREDIT CARDS: Ever wonder just how different the signatures on your credit card and the receipt have to be before the store clerk says something? Check out the Credit Card Prank 1 and 2. The answer...pretty damn far.(via CrimProf)

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HUNTING THE LEAST DANGEROUS PREY. Here kitty, here kitty kitty kitty. MADISON, Wis. - Hunter Mark Smith welcomes wild birds on to his property, but if he sees a cat, he thinks the "invasive" animal should be considered fair game.The 48-year-old firefighter from La Crosse has proposed that hunters in Wisconsin make free-roaming domestic cats an "unprotected species" that could be shot at will by

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HOW HARD IT IS TO BE A STUDENT ATHLETE. A Rutgers' student wrote an article for the student newspaper. It didn't get published in the student paper so it was posted on-line (but that's another story).The article highlights perks that student athletes receive at Rugters such as private tutors, access to (easy) classes that other students don't normally get and early registration, to name some.

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THANK GOD FOR SOME SANITY in the legal world: The one thing that worries me most about living in Illinois is getting an unsafe flower arrangement. Sure I worry about my kids, my wife and my job, but the true terror is that my flower arrangement contain the wrong mix of flowers or even worse....That's why I've decided to move my family to Louisiana. Why? (Sun-Times) In Louisiana, not just anyone

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WHAT'S WITH THESE PEOPLE: Another silly lawsuit...at least this one got tossed. (Sun-Times) A man who found a half-eaten chicken wing in his pot roast dinner failed to prove he was being racially harassed at a Denny's restaurant, a court ruled Monday.The Illinois Court of Appeals reversed a $68,000 verdict for Nathaniel Washington, who said white workers put the chicken wing on his plate as a

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LEGAL OR NOT, IT'S STILL ABSURD: The Illinois Appellate Court has reversed a lower court ruling tossing out a lawsuit filed by a women seeking $100,000 for pain and suffering she has felt because he cat was killed by a dog at an animal hospital. (Sun-Times) [PLaintiff]Anzalone said she's "cried constantly following Blackie's violent death and continues to cry every time she thinks about it to

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WORST NEWS OF THE DAY: (BBC) An episode of the new series of sci-fi drama Doctor Who has been leaked onto the internet.Please please please leave Dr. Who in the past. I'm begging you.When I was freshman in college I lived one dorm room away from Chris and Larry. (Bob lived across the hall from them) Chris had the obligatory cheesy Wisconsin fuzztache and came from some small town which either

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As his father calls him: "the Tiger Woods of speed metal"

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PULASKI DAY UPDATE: Maybe the best holiday ever. The wife and I actually ate breakfast together and read the paper without suffering childis interruptum. Amazing. I don't think we've done that (at home, anyway) in about 5 years. It's all because of the magic in the air, the holiday spirit, goodwill towards men and all that other Pulaski Day sentiment.To you all non-Cook County-ites, I can

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ARREST THE MOM, TOO: A convicted sex offender was arrested last week after inappropriately touching a four year old girl at a Chicago library. Bad stuff. But how is it that this man came to be with the girl? (Tribune) The girl's mother was in the children's section of the library when she gave a man permission to read to the child, said library spokeswoman Ruth Lednicer. When the mother saw

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SIDE BENEFIT: Sometimes you have to love the intersection of politics and ethnicity. Today is one of those days for today we here in Cook County, Illinois celebrate Casmir Pulaski Day. While you may think I'm being a bit sarcastic, it is an actual, official, government holiday. No court today. No school today.The best part is that no one else has it off. I'll still get mail, the buses and

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STILL NOT A GOVERNMENT FAN BUT....The Federal government enacted a law allowing consumers to receive free credit reports from the big three credit reporting agencies once a year. Each region comes on line at different times, but last week began Illinois consumers turn.So, because I woke up at 5:30 a.m. and stumbled across this Sun-Times article telling me the above, I tested it out.I went to the

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ANOTHER STUPID LETTER TO THE EDITOR. Just file this one under Mpls. Star Tribune: Just Can't Hate Bush Enough.It's nice that [Minnesota] governor [Tim Pawlenty] can find time in his busy schedule to attend the funerals of Minnesota's fallen heroes. Too bad President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (those responsible for the war) can't find time in theirs.You just know that if Bush

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MAJOR DECOMPRESSION. I just woke up from a 2 hour nap. That's just the icing on the cake. It hit sixty degrees today. Just this week I was waking up to single digit temperatures.Best of all: no work this weekend. Yeah, it's my own fault when I work M-F at my full time job and then Saturday and Sunday at my part time job. I had planned to sleep in Saturday morning but then I remembered one of

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TWO OF THE BABY or as we affectionately call her LMT, Little Miss Thing.

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HEADLINE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Selig: I'll rid game of steroidsUh huh, "he'll" do it. When you are done laughing, I invite you to read the rest of my blog. Don't worry, we'll wait...we know it'll be a nice long laugh.Sub-header: Commissioner credits testing for steep declinesYeah, wouldn't have anything to do with the Federal Grand Jury in the BALCO case, the media attention or the threat of

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HEADLINE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Man fatally shot after answering doorbellAnd that, in a headline, is why I don't answer the door. It is also why I don't answer the phone. It also is the basis for my decision not to go shopping or run errands. It's a dangerous world out there. In the interest of safety, I'll stick close to the basement couch and shield myself behind a guitar and coffee mug. And if

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THE NON-SCANDAL SCANDAL: The Sun-Times is up in arms about the fact that a city worker is using vacation days to serves a jail sentence. Yeah, so. The Sun-Times starts it's coverage thusly: Just when you thought you'd seen everything in Chicago's scandal-ridden Water Management Department: A 19-year veteran sewer laborer has been allowed to use vacation days to serve time in Cook County Jail.OK

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NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT: Unlike the post above, this is a problem. A laborer with the Cook County Forest Preserve District was charged with DUI and and Leaving the Scene (property damage) on Friday. What's different from above? Glad you asked.First, the guy was caught DUI in a district dump truck.Second, the Forest Preserve District just had a mini-scandal when 14 employees were

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TWO BRITISH COLLEGE students are coming to America for spring break. While here they plan to violate as many stupid laws in as many states as possible. Here are a few they plan to try to break: (seattlepi) # It is illegal to play cards against a Native American in Globe, Arizona# It is illegal to drive around the town square in Oxford, Mississippi, more than 100 times on a single occasion# It

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HEADLINE AP NEWS: Journalist's Shooting Stirs Italian AngerOoh, I'm so scared. What are they gonna do...surrender?

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SAVE ME, PLEASE: If anyone knows what my wife just told me, please call my cell phone immediately. I was in the middle of writing my last post and the wife yelled something about the laundry. She was going to take something and I was supposed to do something else. I heard her talking, responded with "sure, no problem, just let me finish" but I didn't hear a thing. Crap.

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EVERY NOW AND AGAIN some Texan (who went to the U of I which will forgive because we are in a good mood today)named JD comments on this blog. He is one of only three people it seems who does comment and they are most welcome. He has his own blog, The Ramblings of a Hard Working Dad, that I have just added to our blogroll. The guy is pretty brave in his posts and/or better pray his in-laws

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As promised at the end of the below post...another animal fucker. What is with these people.

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LIKE YESTERDAY:And you may find yourself living in a shutdown shackAnd you may find yourself in another part of the worldAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobileAnd you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourself: Well...How did I get here?I know how you feel. Ever have one of those days when you wake up and it's just not you. You

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THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: There ought to be a law that says any politician found to be engaging in transparent protectionism should be impeached immediately. As many long time readers may know, I have posted once or twice about cities' efforts to provide citywide wi-fi for its inhabitants. I was against such city service believing that it was not the job of a city to provide wi-fi. Private

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Yeah, I fell off the wagon tonight.

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NOTHING IS AS COOL as a hot young female teacher sleeping with students (see my favorite hot teacher sleeping with kids, Deborah LeFave) and nothing is as scary as this wildebeest preying on the young. Good god young 'uns, it isn't worth it. YIKES.

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PRE-SCHOOL KIDS: Most days I drop off and pick up my older son from pre-school. I know all the kids and hang out for about 20 minutes when I pick him up. What amazes me about the kids is seeing the future in them. Not in a good "the children our are future" crap, but in the "holy shit, that guys gonna vomit up an egg in front of the school narc" kind of way (Uncle Fester for those of you

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I SAW THIS LINK in BOTW today. "How to Win and Argument" Read the whole thing it's priceless. Special note, ATJ..you have to read this, I just think you'd find it particularly funny.

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WHY I LIKE FEDERAL COURT: Today I had a case set for sentencing. The client was convicted after a trial of Attempt Murder and Aggravated Battery with a Firearm and is looking at double digits in jail. We didn't do the sentencing today because the courtroom was in the middle of a jury trial. Usually when that happens everything else gets a continuance.When I did my last jury in Federal court,

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I WAS GOING TO POST about Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman's comments to a fourth grade class, but VodkaPundit said it perfectly.

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MY SUSPICIONS: Drudge has a header concerning the Michael Jackson trial; specifically the testimony of reporter Martin Bashir. Bashir made a documentary that led to the charges against Jackson. Yesterday, the prosecution called Bashir as a witness and played this documentary to the jury. On cross-examination, Bashir refused to answer certain questions. His lawyers have said Bashir is covered

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UPDATE: Regarding the Lefkow murders and my post below that all the evidence points to execution, I just heard on the local news that a month ago the Feds warned local governments that white supremacy groups might try a "big event" on the anniversary of the Waco standoff. That was yesterday.

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I DON'T KNOW how I missed this but it's a must see.

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SAD TOO: Earlier I linked to an article about the murder of Judge Lefkow's husband and mother. The whole thing is outrageous and I hope the task force catches the killer(s). Despite the task force's announement that it might be a simple break-in, I doubt that will be the end result. White supremicist Matt Hale is already sitting in prison for soliciting someone to kill the Judge and it's too

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TOO FAR: (Rocky Mountain News) A 9-year-old girl will get the proceeds from the sale of the home of the man who was accused of sexually assaulting her.The girl will receive $129,000, the largest award of confiscated funds to go to a single crime victim in the history of Denver's property-confiscation program, Deputy District Attorney Neil Richardson said. I understand the rationale of drug

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CHANGES I TOTALLY AGREE WITH. Chad the Elder points to the Nihilist in Golf Pants who has a campaign platform for pope. I've reprinted the most important ones here. 8. Baptisms and second collections in mass restricted to once per month. Notice shall be given in the parish bulletin of either.7. Announcements are not part of the celebration of mass. If you want to make them, make them ten

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I'VE RARELY BEEN THIS BUSY. I have two jobs and worked both last week. I love both of them but I didn't allow myself any time off for a long stretch. My own fault, and it will get better soon.During this stretch, my wife was out of town for five days. Both sets of grandparents helped watch the kids this weekend and I'm eternally grateful. With me running non-stop for the last thirteen days the

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A FEW DAYS AGO the Chicago Bears signed Mushin Muhammad as their number one wide receiver. I meant to post my pleasure over that signing, but was sidetracked. The follow up to the story is that the Bears have now released David Terrell a first round pick who hasn't worked out as is expected of a first round draft pick.Terrell is a pain in the ass, no doubt about it. He's Randy Moss without the

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BUT HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THEY WERE FEMALE COWS: (Sun-Times) A 63-year-old man is charged with sexual gratification with an animal for allegedly having sex with calves.Harold G. Hart, of Neillsville, allegedly told police that he routinely stopped at a Greenwood farm, usually after bar closing or on trips to strip clubs near Marshfield or Neillsville.A criminal complaint filed in Clark County

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ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT THIS it is a tragedy. I hope the police catch the person(s) who did this.

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I JUST WOUND UP settling a case that was set for arbitration this afternoon so I have a bit of free time over lunch. So in honor of yesterday's Oscars I thought I'd post my list of Top 4 Attractive Actresses....Kate Winslet, Catherine Zeta- Jones, Halle Berry and Sabrina Lloyd.Kate---not wow like Z-J, but classic pretty and not aneorixic.Catherine Z-J---probably lots of plastic in there, but

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COUPLE MORE OSCAR NOTES: Again, in no particular order.Martin Scorsese is starting to look like Harry Caray. His head, complete with white hair) is shrinking while his black glasses keep getting bigger. Unless someone takes those glasses away it's only going to get worse...Robin Williams: I think this guy is mentally ill. In all my years I have laughed at/with Robin Williams one time. That

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OSCAR NOTES: In no particular order...I liked Chris Rock as the host. I thought he did a nice job and was darn funny. His intros of the presenters was great (mentioning Penelope Cruz and Selma Hayak as "four presenters and Jeremy Irons as funniest man in show biz especially warrant mention).But, I like Chris Rock's stand-up so I was probably predisposed to like him. My bet is that if you

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MY BAD: Last night, with little else on, my wife and I watched Numb3rs that we have tivo'd the night before. Although I was prepared to hate it and all ready to rip into Judd Hirsch (world's most annoying TV actor), I was pleasantly surprised.First I actually liked the show. Like most crime/science shows you have to let a few plot flaws and "oh c'mon"s go through, but overall it was a bit

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MAYBE WE COULD DO THIS EVERYDAY: I drop off/pick up my older son at school most days. I drop the younger son at his school more infrequently but still do now and again. When I drop them off...and this has been this way as long as they've been in preschool...I do it fully clothed. Either I am wearing a suit (although to be honest I rarely wear the jacket) or jeans and a sweat shirt. Every

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GOOD POINT. Nice illustration of how a story can be written and why, therefore, some see bias.

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IT DIDN'T WORK FOR FANTASY FOOTBALL but I'll try again. Anyone want to play roto baseball this season? I'll do all the work.

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INSIDE BASEBALL: This'll only matter to Chicago sports radio listeners, but since it's my blog I get to rant whenever I want. About four months ago, Mike North and Doug Buffone were split up from their afternoon show so North could start a new morning show. North has gotten a lot of crap because the morning show is more than sports on a sports radio station. I like the show and although North

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PHOTO OF Eli Manning's off-season workout.

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QUESTION FOR ANY CATHOLICS OUT THERE: I just saw a blurb that the Pope was on a respirator. Do any of you Catholics who read this blog know what, if any, procedure there is if a Pope becomes incapicitated and placed on life support (i.e. Terry Schiavo). If John Paul II were to slip into a persistent vegetative state (not that I think that is likely) who decides to replace him and under what

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HEADLINE AP Pope Has Tracheotomy to Help BreathingIsn't that what they are for...breathing? It's never Person Has Tracheotomy to Help Incontinence or Person has Tracheotomy to Help Erectile Dysfunction.

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THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING: (Yahoo News) An appeals court said a man can press a claim for emotional distress after learning a former lover had used his sperm to have a baby. But he can't claim theft, the ruling said, because the sperm were hers to keep.The ruling Wednesday by the Illinois Appellate Court sends Dr. Richard O. Phillips' distress case back to trial court.Phillips accuses Dr. Sharon

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